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Dear Ms. Menglide,
The property in question is owned and maintained by the Mattituck Park District which is a
separate entity from the Town of Southold. They are governed by a Board of Commissioners
who are responsible for the oversight of the park district beaches and properties. The telephone
number of the Park District Office is 298-9103.
I will also forward your letter on to the Chief of Police and the Town Board members.
RECEIVED
Elizabeth A.Neville
Southold Town Clerk
PO Box 1179
Southold, NY 11971
Tel 631 765-1800
Fax 631 765-6145
SEP 2 5 2007
Southold ToWll Cieri
From: menglide, mirella [mailto:mirella,menglide@italtrade.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 2.5, 2.007 4:50 PM
To: Russell, Scott
Cc: Neville, Elizabeth; 'recreation@southold.org'
Subject: [NEWSENDER] - Bailey Beach, Mattituck - Message is from an unknown sender
Hello-
We own a house in Mattituck. We would like to draw your attention to the neglect
that Bailey Beach ("the Bluffs") in Mattituck seems to be suffering from, for at least
the third year in a row.
The beautiful, wild and isolated beach has turned into a garbage depository. You
can find empty bottles, fragments of the former fence, clothing, paper, plastic, dried
seaweed pushed up on the sand by the high tide, etc. The rail protecting the
entrance from the parking lot has been driven into or pushed aside.
We were wondering whose responsibility is to clean up - at least before the
weekend - after the obviously irresponsible people who pollute the beach. Most
certainly, no one has cleaned the beach before Labor Day weekend.
We assume - perhaps wrongly - that, by paying taxes and beach fees, we are
entitled to enjoy a clean beach. Please inform us as to what our expectations should
be.
Speaking of the same beach, it seems that going there to escape noise and
pollution is a thing of the past: people drive their ATVs back and forth on the beach,
subjecting us to a lot of noise and fumes for hours. They act like they have the right
to do this, so who are we to stop them? No authority bothers to check on who's on
the beach and what they're doing, except for the cases when police needs to collect.
That's when they show up in the parking lot, write tickets and drive away happily.
Lastly, the same could be said about jet skis and motor boats that go back and
forth, close enough to the shore so we can inhale their fumes, too. Sometimes they
'park' their boats in shallow water right by the shore, spend some time on the beach
and leave, only to come back and pick up someone else, and so forth. The noise,
the fumes, the pollution of the already polluted Sound, are things that don't seem to
bother the people who live in the houses on the beach and no surprise here: many
times, the people running their ATVs and boats for the fun of their friends and
destruction of the beach goers' quiet day in the nature, are the same ones living,
visiting or renting the beach houses.
We appreciate your reply and anything you can do about this situation. Thank you
for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Mirella & Alec Menglide
340 North Drive
Mattituck, NY 11952